this is just another article that makes us feel bad because culturally we are not eating something we were not raised to eat.yes, and if they made fish heads into something that looks like we eat now, and gave it an appealing new name, we would eat them.that being said, most americans don't have to eat fish heads. but wait a while, as the human population keeps on growing, the economics will make sure all the fish is brought to port.and this, go 4-5 days without food and that fish head on the grill is gonna smell pretty good.

one-in-the-chamber:this is just another article that makes us feel bad because culturally we are not eating something we were not raised to eat.yes, and if they made fish heads into something that looks like we eat now, and gave it an appealing new name, we would eat them.that being said, most americans don't have to eat fish heads. but wait a while, as the human population keeps on growing, the economics will make sure all the fish is brought to port.and this, go 4-5 days without food and that fish head on the grill is gonna smell pretty good.

Americans only do this because it's what the Europeans do . Otherwise we would be viewed as backwards and uncultured .

gonegirl:What? Why "sick?" I love whole fish with heads and buy them whenever possible. The meat in the cheeks is very sweet.

Just, you know. Always eat the eye first, so you don't have to feel it watching you while you devour the rest of it.

As an Asian American, I would attest that the cheek is the only part of fish heads that is ever worth eating. Personally, I find the eyes to be disgusting. Can't say that I haven't met relatives/friends who freaking LOVE eating the eyes though.

I love these sort of articles by pretentious douches. In this one we learn that we waste fish heads except we freeze them and send them to Africa, sell them to folks with an Asian background who eat those bit and grind up the leftovers to help grow/raise other sorts of food.

"most heads, tails and carcasses are processed into livestock feed or farm fertilizer or thrown back into the sea."

Stupid article is stupid. If they're being used as livestock feed or fertilizer, they're being used to grow other food for humans to eat, so they really aren't being wasted. Even when throwing them back into the sea, fish and other sea life will eat them, which is good for the oceans ecosystem.

As a former commercial fisherman, you sold the entire fish to the fish houses and only cut off the heads if you were selling directly to restaurants and filleting out the fish. This was because the best way to tell how fresh a fish was is to look at the eyes, and for a fish several days old the fishermen would cut off the heads to make it appear fresher. So the fish houses usally only bought the fish with the heads on it. Back in the 70's they would throw the heads into a bone barrel, but when the Vietnamese arrived in the 80's there was always one of them working in the fish houses who took them home with them. They wouldn't get the larger grouper heads though. They sold that directly to an oriental restaurant out of Houston.

If you filleted out the fish for the restaurants yourself, you put all the trim into a big stew pot and boiled it down, including the heads, then screened out the meat when it cooled. The meat near the bones is the sweetest meat of a fish and once deboned make for great eating. You put the bones in the compost heap, and then watered the plants with both the stock and the water you cleaned the pots with. Talk about green plants! There was almost no waste.

Frigging dickwheat writers and their dickwheat assumptions. Reminds me of that sh*thead who wrote the screenplay for the Forest Gump movie. "Shrimping was easy after that!" Sorry assed Hollywood horsesh*t airhead. We make our living and our entire existence depends on our boats. Do you actually think that we're too stupid not to move it out of the way of a killer storm?

I'll tell you what I told my Mother when she told me that thousands of starving children in India or China would be glad to have my dinner: here, mail it to them! They can have it, I don't want it. I'll just have a snack later.

I've eaten fish heads, as the result of working for a company where I was the only white guy among a bunch of east Asian folk. Honestly, tastes exactly the same as the rest of the fish. Save for the eyes. Those are crunchy.